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  • The Diary of a Bookseller

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE"Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." --Dwight Garner, New York Times"Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..."—Daily MailThe Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scot... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Confessions of a Bookseller

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    A funny memoir of a year in the life of a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown.Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun Bythell manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland's largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    From the author of Confessions of a Bookseller, a cankerous and darkly funny field guide to bookstore customers.It does take all kinds and through the misanthropic eyes of a very grumpy bookseller, we see them all. There's the Expert (with subspecies from the Bore to the Helpful Person), the Young Family (ranging from the Exhausted to the Aspirational), Occultists (from Conspiracy Theorist to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Remainders of the Day

    A Bookshop Diary

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    New from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, Shaun Bythell has created an endearing and cozy world for booklovers, a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books.The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a book lover’s paradise, with thousands of books ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Confessions of a Bookseller

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    This book is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore—bookshop cat not included.Go behind the scenes at The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, with owner Shaun Bythell. Inside a Georgian townhouse with a stone façade on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and one portly shop cat, Shaun manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland’s largest used bookshop with ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Diary of a Bookseller

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    Narrated by Robin Laing ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    Shaun Bythell owns the Bookshop, Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover’s paradise? Well, almost … In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Remainders of the Day

    More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    New from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, Shaun Bythell has created an endearing and cozy world for booklovers, a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books.The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, is a booklover’s paradise, with thousands of books ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 1 min

    A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers by the curmudgeonly shop owner and author of Confessions of a Bookseller. Shaun Bythell knows them all—from the “Person Who Doesn’t Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover)” to the “Parents Secretly after Free Childcare.” The business of books has never been funnier.In a tradition that runs from R. M. Williamson’s Bits from an ... Read more

    $21.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Confessions of a Bookseller

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms.Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

    by Shaun Bythell ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours

    Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller, reveals, that's really only half the story.Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

    Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture

    by Chip Colwell ...
    Narrated by Chip Colwell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits.Today, hundreds of tribes use ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Patron Saint of Ugly

    by Marie Manilla ...
    Narrated by Laura Hicks ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 24 min

    Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast. With her sharp tongue, she has always known how to defend herself against bullies and aggressors but finds she is less adept at fending off the pilgrims who have set up a veritable tent city outside her ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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